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Howeth Road, BOURNEMOUTH, BH10 5NT

Looking up Abney Road from the Howeth Road end, it looks deceptively rural thanks to a patch of gorse and bramble on the corner where the sign is situated. The sign is a Bournemouth Borough one with the emblem introduced in around 2013. This is photo no.2 of a series of 451 in my coronavirus lockdown walking project: See https://www.geograph.org.uk/article/My-2020-Coronavirus-Lockdown-walking-project for the complete set of photos.

A small side road of bungalows off Fletcher Road, nearly at the top. The road sign is a standard one from around 2000-2006, perhaps a little earlier, featuring the borough coat of arms. This is photo no.144 of a series of 453 in my coronavirus lockdown walking project: See https://www.geograph.org.uk/article/My-2020-Coronavirus-Lockdown-walking-project for the complete set of photos.

A short cul-de-sac of maybe 1970s housing off the major side-road, Howeth Road. The sign is a modern one, from 2010-15 when this more modern, abstract emblem rather than the traditional town coat of arms as the working logo of the council. This is photo no.206 of a series of 453 in my coronavirus lockdown walking project: See https://www.geograph.org.uk/article/My-2020-Coronavirus-Lockdown-walking-project for the complete set of photos.

A short east-west road linking Howeth Road and Green Lane, used occasionally as a sort of cut-through – only occasionally because this is one of those areas where none of the roads goes fully between any of the major roads so you have to keep doing a left-right, and it would possibly have been just as quick therefore to stick to the bigger roads in the first place! The sign is of a design that became prevalent in Bournemouth around 1990 and was in use for most of that decade. Many are starting to look a bit shabby now, and the blue border has faded to nothing on this one. This is photo no.145 of a series of 453 in my coronavirus lockdown walking project: See https://www.geograph.org.uk/article/My-2020-Coronavirus-Lockdown-walking-project for the complete set of photos.

A small, unsurprisingly named close off Dowlands Road, dating probably from the late 70s or early 80s, with a few bungalows on only one side and this wide grass verge on the other. The sign is the standard Bournemouth nameplate from the 1980s, affixed with tubular steel which protrudes at each side. For cul-de-sacs, it is common for these to incorporate the no-through road sign, as here. This is photo no.112 of a series of 453 in my coronavirus lockdown walking project: See https://www.geograph.org.uk/article/My-2020-Coronavirus-Lockdown-walking-project for the complete set of photos.

Dowlands Road is shaped like a squarish crescent, with two turnings off Howeth Road, but with an extra little spur off one corner, meeting Green Lane. This sign faces up the little spur and is set in front of two of the bungalows on the inside of the crescent. The sign is the standard Bournemouth nameplate from the 1980s, affixed with tubular steel which protrudes at each side. It is quite wide with lettering well spaced, and with ROAD unabbreviated – I therefore wonder whether this sign has been recycled from a road with a longer name! This is photo no.113 of a series of 453 in my coronavirus lockdown walking project: See https://www.geograph.org.uk/article/My-2020-Coronavirus-Lockdown-walking-project for the complete set of photos.

The parked van allows us only a glimpse along this snaking no-through road, but that glimpse tells us that it consists of desirable detached houses and is not a modern cul-de-sac like many of the infill developments in the area. The sign also tells us that the road isn't modern: it looks like an ordinary 1980s sign mounted on tubular steel (such as the one at Image), but careful scrutiny will tell us that the lettering and black border is embossed in the metalwork and not put on adhesively like the more modern variety. This makes it one of the older, perhaps 1960s, nameplates. This is photo no.39 of a series of 451 in my coronavirus lockdown walking project: See https://www.geograph.org.uk/article/My-2020-Coronavirus-Lockdown-walking-project for the complete set of photos.

A house of prayer and retreat, according to the sign on the front, but not for much longer.

An Elizabeth II-reign box on Green Lane, opposite the Dowlands Road turning.

At the junction of Hillview Road and Doveshill Crescent, on the site of a former convent Image; 64 affordable flats being built. http://www.davewells.net/New-Developments/New-Development.aspx?Id=100